Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross For Non-Combatants Buy Now Provenance Footnote: Previously sold as

Provenance Footnote: Previously sold as Lot 94 in Andreas Theis Auction 48

The children grew up in the US and Hannelore

with four chapters (I - Ancient Alba and the Rise of the Highland Clan System - 400 B

with ribbons for a Hindenburg Cross (with miniature

Canadian Machine Gun Corps

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross For Non-Combatants Buy Now Provenance Footnote: Previously sold as(Kriegsverdienstkreuz fr Nichtkmpfer). Instituted 8 December 1914 by Prince Leopold IV. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central wreathed Lippe rose, the six oclock arm bearing an institution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm bearing the monogram of Prince Leopold IV, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of